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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
May. 06, 2022
Alphatec Spine, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Andrew W. Rajek, Escondido, CA (US);
Steven Vidmar, Carlsbad, CA (US);
James Lee, Vista, CA (US);
David Considine, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Graham Witherby, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Alphatec Spine, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are surgical retractors and methods of using such surgical retractors where the surgical retractors include a base portion and two retractor blades. The base portion has (a) two extensions, each extension having a receiving area, and (b) and one or more engagement portions. Each retractor blade includes both a blade portion with proximal and distal ends and an arm portion extending from the proximal end of the blade portion. Each arm portion is received by a respective receiving area.